Kitty Catkin

lurcher1948

Kitty Catkin

Good for him in this heat-mine is nothing like so energetic as usual, and by the look of it, he’s not unusual in that around here. Perhaps it’s not so HUMID where you are. Give him an ear rub from Auntie Kitty 🙂

lurcher1948

Mike Hosking start his show with his usual rant and today’s topic was a 80+yo living in a state house for a long time”shock horror”And horror of horrors the old gent was a artist Hosking sniggered so I thought what’s Hosking achieved so I checked WHIKI and all he’s been is a talk jock.One falied marriage, taken money off casinos to push their barrow and being a Alt-right supporter,not much to be proud of mike

The whole neoliberal economic conundrum – which we are all part of, like it or not – summed up in one ‘report’.

” … inadequate infrastructure constrains growth but it also has a negative effect on the visitor experience … Survey participants also noted the lack of domestic labour in front-line positions is detracting from the Kiwi experience for visitors …

One said ” … we are taking away a uniquely New Zealand experience for our international guests by employing huge numbers of cheap migrant workers in front-end jobs.””

Presumably they want to employ cheap Kiwi workers in front-end jobs?

The ‘privatized’ tourism boom will continue provided it gets corporate welfare from socialized infrastructure and socially-provisioned ‘educated’ labour … without paying any more tax …

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Alan Wilkinson

Corky

”Inadequate infrastructure constrains growth but it also has a negative effect on the visitor experience … Survey participants also noted the lack of domestic labour in front-line positions is detracting from the Kiwi experience for visitors …”

Seems like we traded a negative bureaucratic driven government model, for a neo-liberal open market.

I will take the latter any day.

” Lack of domestic labour in front-line positions” has nothing to do with neo -liberalism, and everything to do with poor management decisions, or a company operating on a shoestring budget.

lurcher1948

Gezza

Yes I like Trev in the Chair at Question Time. He certainly seems to be tidying it up & keeping it more focussed. Not a lot for the Oppos to work with at the moment becos Govt Ministers don’t seem to anything concrete in the way of detailed plans yet & everything gets put into the “wait for the budget” pigeonhole.

Not looking foward to Question Time when Winston’s acting PM. God he spouted some burbling nonsense today standing in for Jacinda. Trev’ll need tranquilizers.

Had to smile when – was it Amy Adams? – tried to get her question to the Minister of Corrections transferred to a day when Kelvin was present. The Oppos had a bit of fun with Winston saying this government was gonna stop police giving warnings to young offenders & charge them, & then having to explain how the Minister of Corrections was going to reduce the prison population. Big disconnect there.

lurcher1948

Watching 2-time loser Bill English sparing with Winston Peters was good.Bill had big bags under his eyes, big enough to go on holiday with, WAIT he could be SOON and the knifes are out, sad way to go,to end your career,,so many knifes and Bills back is only Dipton size.

lurcher1948

Do you know what’s scary,listerning to Mike Hosking who actually believes what he says on the radio is the truth.He was so excited about POTUS#45 speech it was as if he had a religious experience.I think Mike practices clapping to himself in front of a mirrow like Trump does, it’s all about Mike and his voice,right Mike…